Signing Banquet

After deciding to accept the invitation, Duanmu Huai informed the girls of the situation as well. Naturally, everyone was looking forward to it. After all, people like Ann, Gureiya, and Rumiere had all fought to rescue those planets, so they were quite concerned about the future of human civilization on them.

Now that they could see those planets joining forces and moving forward together, the girls were delighted. That meant their efforts back then hadn't been in vain, right?

Of course, if you asked Duanmu Huai, his opinion would be...

"'Face the future and create brilliance together'... Did they really have to use such a boring theme? Never mind. It's still better than 'Warmly Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Pavlov's Birth.'"

Looking at the slogan on the invitation, Duanmu Huai silently rolled his eyes. At the moment, they were aboard an Inquisition warship heading for the venue of the banquet. It was located at a point in the middle of the several planets. In order to better coordinate the commercial and political relations between them, Dadanier had spared no expense to build a large space station in a place called "Aquila Center Point." According to Dadanier's plans, it would become a hub for the trade and transport of supplies between the planets.

This banquet was also the opening ceremony announcing the space station's official launch.

"I really didn't expect them to actually pull it off. It's quite something. I still remember how each of those planets was on the brink of destruction back then."

As the person who had followed Duanmu Huai the longest—or rather, the second longest after Okegis—Ann couldn't help sighing with emotion. She had accompanied Duanmu Huai all the way to the present, and had participated in nearly every war on those planets. Looking back, the Princess